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The first thing I realized when I started reporting on the heroin epidemic in southern Oregon is that pretty much everything I thought I knew about it was鈥� -
Liam Moriarty/JPRDr. Jim Shames is an addiction specialist and the medical director for Jackson County Health and Human Services. He says doctors like him played a key鈥�
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Today, we meet Darryl Inaba. He鈥檚 a Doctor of Clinical Pharmacy and co-author of 鈥淯ppers, Downers, All Arounders,鈥� a book on addiction and the brain鈥� -
In this final part of the series, we meet 27-year-old Diana Cooper. She鈥檚 a mother of four from Medford -- and a recovering heroin addict.Cooper says鈥� -
The search for pain relief is turning respectable members of the community into drug addicts.It's happened for years, since the introduction of the highly鈥�